Re: Pros and cons of using the A-Bomb

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:23:33 -0400, Cubdriver
<usenet.AT.danford.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:13:40 -0400, Brad Meyer <bradm110@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The only one that could lift it high
enough and fly fast enough for the a/c and crew to have a reasonable
chance of getting far enough from the detonation for to survive was
the 29.

Ah, good point. Hadn't thought of that! Even the B-29 had to make a
diving "breakaway turn" (or at least that's what the crews did;
perhaps it wasn't strictly necessary?).

I have read that both dropping a/c were buffeted quite severely even
after the maneuver. I also read that the turn involved was much
steeper and tighter then anything previously done with a B-29 in
operations and was seen by the pilots, at least initially, as a hairly
maneuver.

.

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